About

Pastel Y La Silla or Cake and Chair refers to a controversial 2013 tweet made by the Barcelona Guàrdia Urbana (city police) in which someone mistakenly shared an image of an inappropriate sexual joke involving two chairs, one with cake on it and one with a dildo, and the question, "Tienes que sentarte en una de las sillas y comerte lo que hay en la otra ¿En que silla te sientas?" (Eng. "You have to sit in one of the chairs and eat what is in the other. In what chair do you sit?"). In the following years, the image macro became a recurring meme shared and referenced by Spanish speakers on social media.

Origin

On November 27th, 2013, the official Twitter account of the Barcelona Guàrdia Urbana (city police)^[1] posted an image (shown below) of two chairs, one with a cake and the other with a dildo (representing a penis), alongside text that reads, "You have to sit in one of the chairs and eat what is in the other. In what chair do you sit?"

Spread

Although the image was removed shortly after being posted, it was saved and reposted by various users, subsequently spreading to other social media platforms and becoming a prominent image macro shared by Spanish speakers.

For Instance, on January 13th, 2020, Facebook^[2] user teddyalc19k posted a picture of a woman sitting in a chair and eating a cake on top of another chair. The Spanish text overlay says, "It may look like a normal picture, but if you know about memes you understand something is wrong here." The post (shown below) garnered over 130 likes and 320 shares in three years.

On September 29th, 2020, Facebook^[3] user @Fornaik uploaded a Fortnite Photoshop edited image reimagining the cake and chair meme. The post (shown below, left) garnered over 350 likes and 19 shares in three years. On September 29th, 2019, Memedroid^[4] user @Alexisda.1403gmail. posted a picture of a cake on top of a chair and a Vin Diesel image paired with a caption in Spanish that reads, "I had no option!" The meme (shown below, right) received over 1,140 reactions in four years.

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